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  • Hackers target Ruddock's department

    The federal Attorney General's Department has weathered more than one million hacking attempts over the last four years, its chief information officer said.

  • Cisco hits back at flaw researcher

    Cisco Systems has taken legal action to keep a researcher from further discussing a hack into its router software.

  • Old game machine learns hack trick

    Sega's defunct Dreamcast gaming console, which has long fallen out of favour with gamers, has surprisingly gained a new lease on life.

  • Microsoft to hackers: Don't publish code

    The software giant criticises security firms and independent programmers who release sample programs to compromise computer systems.

  • Hacker had WorldCom in his hands

    A network-intrusion specialist sneaks into the Internet backbone provider's administrative system and then tells the company all.

  • Should you fear IT ghost workers?

    Ghosts of millions of former workers populate the databases of corporations. The workers have moved on, but their ghosts linger, awaiting a hacker intent on using the ghost’s identity to damage the company’s network systems.

  • Corporate security gets urgent

    There's a new resolve among IT managers to protect Internet infrastructures. But does technology really have a chance against large-scale cyberattacks?

  • Managing security: Building a defence

    Reducing the threat of viruses to a corporate network is no longer a simple task. But how do you manage the multiple layers necessary, and keep them up to date?

  • The new security threats

    Three out of four businesses are wide open to attack. Is your company next? Learn about the top new Internet security threats—and how to protect your organisation.

  • Researcher to expose Intel security flaws

    An independent security researcher has flagged plans to reveal a proof of concept security exploit that could work remotely against any machine using Intel processors, including those used in Apple's famously secure Macs.

  • IBM chides security researchers

    Technology giant IBM has taken independent security researchers to task for their role in making information about unpublished computer attacks available in an undisciplined manner.

  • Rootkit threatens Cisco routers

    Cisco and the security community are debating the reality of rootkits attacking the Cisco's Internetwork Operating System (IOS) after a researcher presented a proof of concept attack, which threatens Cisco routers and voice over IP phones.

  • Google fixes Gmail 'ethical hacker' vulnerability

    Three days after ethical hacker Petko Petkov announced his discovery of a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Gmail, Google says it has fixed the problem.

  • Seek.com.au targeted by e-mail harvesting tool

    Security researchers have discovered an e-mail harvesting tool that was pre-configured to target Seek.com.au's candidate database but a Seek executive claims its database is immune to such an attack.

  • Will Google's App Engine become a malware portal?

    Security experts fear Google's new application hosting service App Engine will become a tool to spread malware and could ruin Web security defences.

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